It is now four years and seven months since Dreyfus was convicted of treason, and he has only just begun to understand his own case. No fact could be a better proof of the villainous nature of the conspiracy against him. He has been living all these years on Devil's Island in the belief that he was the victim of an ordinary judicial error, that his relatives had deserted him, and that his only hope lay in President Faure and General de Boisdeffre. This was his firm conviction when he had his first interview with his wife in the prison at Rennes, and it was not until after repeated explanations from Maitres Demange and Labori that he realised the real state of affairs. They did not try me, they murdered mo," is said to have been his comment. Though considerably aged, Dreyfus was by no means a physical wreck when he reached Rennes, and thanks to the unlimited amount of exercise now allowed him he is now almost in normal health. When one reads the accounts of the inhuman treatment to which he was subjected, one is lost in wonder that he survived to tell the tale. It is satisfactory to know that the new Government will not rest content with the dismissal of the Governor of the Guiana penal settlements, but has ordered an exhaustive enquiry with a view to the discovery of other guilty parties.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.